Antoinette Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach (born 15 February 1969), known as Antoinette Sandbach, is a former politician who was elected as Member of Parliament for Eddisbury in Cheshire at the 2015 general election.
The following day, 8 May 2015, she resigned as the Welsh Assembly Member for the North Wales region, having been elected as a North Wales regional Assembly Member at the May 2011 election. First elected as a Conservative, Sandbach had the Conservative whip removed on 3 September 2019 and later lost a vote of no confidence by the Eddisbury Conservative Association. Following deselection as a Conservative, Antoinette Sandbach chose eventually to become a Liberal Democrat. She lost her seat to her former party in the 2019 general election.
Early life
Born in Hammersmith, West London, Sandbach is the eldest of four sisters.She is a descendant of prominent slave owner Samuel Sandbach. Her paternal grandmother was Geraldine Mackeson-Sandbach, a great-granddaughter of Samuel Sandbach and a prominent landowner in North Wales, whose estates included Hafodunos near Abergele and...